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2 Jan, 8 tweets, 4 min read
Thread: la ricerca non ci salverà. ma può aiutare dopo.(/)
@MarcoCantamessa @AlfonsoFuggetta @carloalberto @recifar @DonChisciotte_P @liberioltre @DeShindig
Io ho vissuto la crescita del luddismo italiano dagli albori. non tutti quelli della mia età sanno chi fosse, ad esempio, Felice Ippolito. it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Ip… (/)
L'italia è un paese con scarse risorse naturali che si è sempre tenuto su con l'ingegno e l'inventiva. Ma l'inventiva è come un seme: il terreno non deve essere avvelenato. (/) doingbusiness.org/en/rankings
Ho avuto occasione di conoscere persone come @AlfonsoFuggetta , e non ho ALCUN dubbio che la ricerca italiana sia a livelli di eccellenza. Anzi. Gli italiani sono sproporzionatamente rappresentati nella ricerca di alto livello. fuori. (/)
Quindi, per me vedere la politica (che ha portato l'italia sotto il Kenya e la Romania ed a 28 posizioni dalla Spagna, occuparsi di ricerca scientifica è solo un potenziale disastro. Come un moccioso in un negozio di cristalli di Boemia, non capisce perchè e fa solo danni.(/)
Oltretutto, dare a questi il volante è come far portare i piloti di formula uno su una strada di montagna senza guard rail su un pullman guidato da un minore in stato di ubriachezza: anche assunto che il piano sia buono...(/)
Però, nel bene o nel male, il sistema attuale non reggerà a lungo. Più che piano Amaldi, è meglio pensarlo come un "piano Seldon": dopo il crollo, riduce l'interregno.
P.S.: per rispondere a @f_ronchetti : non retwitto "come se non ci fosse un domani". lo faccio perchè ci sarà un dopodomani.

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THREAD: on.wsj.com/3hHsJHl you might not think so, but this is also part of the #QE side effects. Artificially suppressed rates defer costs way after an incoming administration bent on wayward spending has come and gone. (/) @bondstrategist @nglinsman @Halsrethink
on a practical policy level, #QE is akin to trying to solve your house bug problem by liberally spraying carpets with breadcrumbs. do YOU eat bread? sure. But that's no reason to behave like that.(/)
But the best is for later. There is a feedback loop where through higher taxes, regulation and legislation, money must be kept in political hands, be they "private" or directly public. Ladies and Gentlemen here's the deal:(/)
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THREAD: first we must define courage proper: dafties would call people like ANTIFA "courageous" simply because they put themselves at risk. If you define courage as the ability to be afraid and still think, I'm your man.(/) @nglinsman @amlivemon @Halsrethink
The best definition is widely quoted in an author I find myself thinking of more and more these days, Tom #Clancy: at odd points, Jack Ryan is defined as "a good man in a storm". That, of course, includes providing for the fact storms occur.(/)
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THREAD: THAT is the Mother's milk this political generation has been raised on. For them, "Price" is not something born out of an heuristics no participant needs to know much for it to work. (/) @nglinsman @amlivemon @Halsrethink @bondstrategist @jeuasommenulle
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THREAD on #ECB digital currency:
According to Italian media, there is a relevant news item. (1/7) @nglinsman @Halsrethink @amlivemon @mtmalinen @bondstrategist @chigrl @RobertMCutler
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1. As always, the #EU "Consultation process" is a pathetic farce. Unless you were part of that microscopic part of the population, professionals not compromised with involved entities, no one told you diddly squat.(3/7)
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21 Nov 20
THREAD: bit.ly/39aYZQK I am on @parler_app , with the same handle, and I post on either. #Parler is not yet up to spped relative to #Twitter, apart on one thing... which is the reason it will be kept alive. (1/)
Twitter has done things that at inverted roles would have caused mass demonstrations, Parliamentary inquiries, and a total fracas. to name one, Blocking the @nypost twitter page for having published articles from said journal not "approved" by Twitterverse.(2/)
That was imho the starting point of the huge number of people opening a Parler account (mine is from 2019. But I am more paranoid than a Russian). Those, however, have not dented traffic on twitter by those accused by the establishment of "setting up their echo chamber".(3/)
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21 Nov 20
Mmm... it's not built to wage war, but as a political ship it's far from harmless. For example, it puts the #IRGC s finger on the Jugular of the rest of the regime by threatening to fire those missiles.(/) @RobertMCutler @shaun_riordan @vtchakarova @BaldingsWorld @nglinsman
Until now, the IRGC had two roles, an open "bodyguards of the Mullahs" internally, and a more or less covert "instigators of trouble" abroad. That makes sense in an asymmetrical world where no one retaliated by establishing similar troubles in your country.(/)
After the "Green Revolution" demise, Mullahs and IRGC take it as a given that their house is secure, and now that Turkey is a friend that's taken to the bank. But Brown Shirts tend to tragically cut their heads off while shaving at the behest of pesky political masters.(/)
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